Project AERODYNAMIC (or How The CIA Nazified Ukraine) (archive.org)

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archive.org full copy. This copy was retrieved on 2023-10-16.

archive.org wayback link. Only the first page is archived by the wayback machine, but this establishes that the document was published there if it gets removed.

cia.gov link. Full document, link is unbroken as of 2023-10-17.

A good article on the subject for anyone who doesn’t want to read messy typewriter documents with sometimes unfaithful OCR. Note that it was released in 2016.

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Lebed

This guy was the main Ukrainian involved in the operation. Prolog Research was the publishing house the CIA funded for him to run. It published tons of anti-communist propaganda and pro-Ukrainian nationalist propaganda. This Village Voice article from 1988 shows how these propaganda books were then incorporated into a false historical narrative to anchor double genocide propaganda.

https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/

From 1949, Lebed lived in the United States. During 1952–1974, he headed the Prolog Research Center in New York; in 1982–85, he was Deputy Chairman and since 1974 he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the institution. In 1956-91 he was a member of the board of the Ukrainian Society of Foreign Studies in Munich and Toronto, publishing committee "Chronicle of the UPA (1975). Author memories "UPA" (1946, 1987). Thanks to his collaboration with the CIA and their active shielding of him, Lebed was never tried for the war crimes he and his men had committed against Poles and Jews during WWII.

[-] AERODYNAMIC@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was a good read. I wasn’t familiar with Village Voice.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was written before the CIA FIOA info came out about Project Aerodynamic as I understand, so it couldn't connect all the dots. But it does provide very useful context for how extensive the propaganda narrative has been leveraged to create deeply held false beliefs about Ukrainian history.

For a deep dive on the origin of some these false narratives, check out this post of mine: https://hexbear.net/post/342686